(214 quotes found)
“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
Walker Percy
“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”
Robert M. Pirsig
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation”
Charles Darwin
“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
“A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
“We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.”
Christopher Reeve
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
Archibald MacLeish
“Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?”
Clyde Kluckhohn
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